Study of quality of Life in Psoriasis Patients with different intensities of Referring to Sina Tabriz Medical Center in 2020

Abstract

Psoriasis is a systemic, chronic, recurrent, and erythematous squamous inflammatory disease that affects an average of 3% of the population. Low self-esteem, sexual dysfunction, anxiety, and alcoholism are common in these patients. In addition, these patients are usually mentally exhausted and have occupational problems. Since quality of life improvement is an important goal in medical treatment, it should be considered an important topic in medical research. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the quality of life in patients with psoriasis with different intensities referred to Sina Hospital in Tabriz in 2020. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, patients were examined by a specialist dermatologist, and patients with plaque psoriasis were included in the study using the PASI score for assessing the severity and type of disease. Interfering factors such as patients with vitiligo and other autoimmune diseases were excluded from the study simultaneously, and the rest are included in the study (in the studied patients, no other skin diseases in the past month and no history of mental illness were considered ). Patients' quality of life was assessed with a special questionnaire of quality of life of patients with skin diseases (Dermatologic Quality of Life Index). Results: In this study, which was performed in dermatology centers of Tabriz, 120 psoriasis patients with different disease intensities were studied. The mean age of the patients was 47.40±12.92 years, and 51.7% of the patients were female. In the studied patients, the mean DLQI score in the studied patients was 12.15±6.19, with a range of 1 to 26. There was no statistically significant relationship between quality of life and variables of residence, employment status, educational status, duration of illness, underlying disease. However, there is a statistically significant relationship between quality of life and marital variables, type of psoriasis, and disease severity.